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From: "Clemm, Geoff" <gclemm@Rational.Com>
To: "DeltaV (E-mail)" <ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org>
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 23:11:42 -0400
Subject: RE: MKRESOURCE vs. MKACTIVITY and MKWORKSPACE
I have received no objections to my proposal to replace
MKRESOURCE with MKACTIVITY and MKWORKSPACE, so I will
go ahead and make this change in the next revision of
the protocol. I've enclosed the original message giving
the rationale for this change.
Cheers,
Geoff
-----Original Message-----
From: Clemm, Geoff [mailto:gclemm@Rational.Com]
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 11:08 AM
To: DeltaV (E-mail)
Subject: MKRESOURCE vs. MKACTIVITY and MKWORKSPACE
The redirect reference design team decided to go with a
MKREF method instead of using a generic MKRESOURCE method,
because the semantics of MKRESOURCE is so heavily
depedent on what type of resource is being created.
I believe the same reasoning applies even more strongly
to the new versioning resource types, so I propose that
we replace the generic MKRESOURCE method in the versioning
protocol with MKACTIVITY and MKWORKSPACE methods (and for
those of you with long memories, yes, I was in fact the one
lobbying the loudest for a generic MKxxx method way back
when ... :-).
The argument has also been made that a generic MKRESOURCE
method is not compatible with existing extensibility
mechanisms in commonly used Web servers such as Apache and IIS.
I don't thing this should be an overriding consideration,
but it should be factored in.
Comments?
Cheers,
Geoff